NYT’s Baquet disses Chicago Tribune editor

Dean Baquet

New York Times managing editor Dean Baquet said at a University of Southern California journalism forum that Chicago Tribune editor Gerould Kern “knows zero [chuckle] about newspapering. …[and] he was a guy who just gave the right answers to his bosses and never learned how to really be a journalist — to my way of thinking.”

Kern’s response:

I am disappointed that Dean Baquet feels compelled to attack me personally. We disagreed on many issues when he was at the Los Angeles Times, but I always respected him as a person and his viewpoints as a journalist. I still do.

Gerould Kern

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